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setting up PHPUnit for plugin development on Local by Flywheel
Get local by flywheel Add a new local site Custom install PHP 7.3 nginx Mysql 5.6 WP user: admin WP password: admin Go to WP admin Install and activate the plugin you would like to test SSH into the site and run these commands: apt-get update apt-get install curl apt-get install subversion wget -O phpunit … Read More
Xdebug Remote debugging with PHPStorm and Digital Ocean Droplet
Set up a remote server with PHP and XDebug installed. Because firewalls will be firewalls, we probably will need an SSH tunnel set up to the server in order for XDebug to work. So, better say goodby to “Remote” debugging, or prepare yourself for some serious hair pulling. To set op the SSH tunnel that … Read More
How to hide menu items from wordpress admin for your clients
Just use the Adminimize plugin! If you don’t wanna, here are some functions function remove_menus(){ if (!current_user_can(‘administrator’)) { remove_menu_page( ‘index.php’ ); remove_menu_page( ‘upload.php’ ); remove_menu_page( ‘vc-welcome’ ); remove_menu_page( ‘tools.php’ ); remove_menu_page( ‘edit.php?post_type=vacancy’ ); remove_menu_page( ‘edit.php?post_type=branch’ ); remove_menu_page( ‘edit.php?post_type=person’ ); remove_menu_page( ‘edit.php?post_type=page’ ); remove_menu_page( ‘peak6-general-settings’ ); } } add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘remove_menus’, 20 ); add_action( ‘admin_bar_menu’, ‘remove_wp_logo’, … Read More
How to create dynamically populated cascading dropdown-lists for Contact Form 7
Something I had to deal with quite often lately, is creating dynamic drop-down lists in WordPress, like this: As always, I like to use the WordPress plugin Contact Form 7 as a basis for all my form-driven projects. The reason is that Contact Form 7 has a robust validation mechanism. It is very lightweight, yet powerful … Read More
WordPress Filterable Admin Columns for Custom Posts
After reading the great article on Ractoon.com on how to create sortable admin columns for custom posts, I decided I wanted to take things a step further and add a select box to the top of the posts table to filter by a custom field. Here’s the code. I followed the same naming conventions as … Read More
HTML5 alternative for nested anchor tags
HTML 5 standards do not allow nesting of hyperlinks, although there are some valid use cases to allow this. So we need to rely on a work-around like this one for now: HTML <div class=”block”> <a class=”overlay” href=”#overlay-link”></a> <div class=”inner”> This entire box is a hyperlink. (Kind of)<br><br><br><br> <a href=”#inner-link”>I’m a W3C compliant hyperlink inside … Read More
Apache very slow on localhost on Windows 10
Apache was slow, and then I disabled XDebug in PHP.ini, and then apache was fast again. The end. … Read More